Detection Quotes

• It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Art, Numbers, Able

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.419, Race Point Publishing

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• There can be life after breast cancer. The prerequisite is early detection.

  Ann Jillian

  Cancer, Breasts, Prerequisites

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• Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram.

  Larry Craig

  Cancer, America, Mammograms

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• The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.

  Thomas R. Insel

  News Stories, Medicine, Intervention

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• All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Learning, Knowledge

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• I can smell bullshit from a mile away but it's so much harder to detect when it's around you all day.

  Dane Cook

  Smell, Bullshit, Miles

  FaceBook post by Dane Cook from Sep 04, 2014

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• Ideas, and even the detection of errors, require more than care and caution.

  Ernest Gellner

  Errors, Ideas, Care

  Ernest Gellner (2005). “Words and Things: An Examination Of, and an Attack On, Linguistic Philosophy”, p.139, Psychology Press

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• There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call a terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems that once structured society. They can be detected all around us. You can select any of these fragments that activate your imagination for your own use. Let it help shape your own relationship to the unconscious system out of which these symbols have come.

  Joseph Campbell

  Relationship, Broken, Imagination

  "Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor".

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• Early detection is key," she said. "And if I hadn't found my lump early, I don't know what would have been. I am still here and I want to encourage women to do that on a regular basis.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Inspirational, Cancer, Keys

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• It was something of a mystery how a couple of teenage girls had managed to escape detection for two years, especially when one of them was a privileged Moroi princess and the other a delinquent dhampir with a disciplinary file so long that it broke school records.

  Richelle Mead

  Girl, Teenage, Couple

  Richelle Mead (2017). “Vampire Academy: The Untold Stories”, p.68, Penguin UK

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• No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Natural Talent, Done

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “A Study in Scarlet”, p.32, Arthur Conan Doyle

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• The art of detection is finding a common denominator for the fractions of a case.

  Elsa Barker

  Art, Common, Problem

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• I want to make people aware of early detection.

  Rod Stewart

  People, Want

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• No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Punishment, Uncertain, Severity

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• Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error.

  William Whewell

  Errors, Excellence, Trials

  William Whewell (1852). “Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England”, p.101, London : J.W. Parker ; Cambridge : J. Deighton

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• Health system development is a key to effective detection, response, and control of any outbreak.

  Margaret Chan

  Keys, Development, Outbreaks

  "Are We Prepared? An Exclusive Interview with WHO Director-General Margaret Chan". “Next Outbreak” with Joanne Silberner, www.pbs.org. September 28, 2015.

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  Much like the removal of moles and skin lesions is done to prevent them from growing into more serious skin abnormalities, removing minor discord before it becomes a calamity is an important use of our time. Most people don’t like to make waves and they swallow frustration and bury true feelings, not wanting to compromise temporary tranquility, never realizing that massive turmoil doesn’t start out massive—it grows beneath the skin like a cancer that could have been avoided with early detection.

  T. D. Jakes

  Cancer, Frustration, People

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• It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of far less importance to the outcome than the passion generated in the attacker. The man who has lost control will cause serious injuries in many cases, quite irrespective of the weapon he uses and regardless of the certainty of detections and punishment.

  Colin Greenwood

  Passion, Men, Domestic Violence

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• As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don't have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I'm fine. I'm cured. I'm well.

  Kate Jackson

  Cancer, Looks, Fine

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• Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.

  John Mica

  Country, Airports, Israel

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• I am a 36-year-old person with breast cancer, and not many people know that that happens to women my age or women in their 20s. This is my opportunity now to go out and fight as hard as I can for early detection.

  Christina Applegate

  Cancer, Fighting, Opportunity

  "Why She Had a Double Mastectomy". "The Oprah Winfrey Show", edition.cnn.com. 2008.

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• The aggressor too should know that the preemptive use of nuclear weapons would not insure victory. With modern detection systems and the combat readiness of the Soviet Union's strategic nuclear forces, the United States would not be able to deal a crippling blow to the socialist countries. The aggressor will not be able to evade an all-crushing retaliatory strike.

  Dmitriy Ustinov

  Crush, Country, Blow

  "Physics and Nuclear Arms Today" by David Hafemeister, (p. 94), 1991.

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• I am arguing that climate models are not fit for the purpose of detection and attribution of climate change on decadal to multidecadal timescales.

  Judith Curry

  Climate, Purpose, Arguing

  "The 50-50 argument". judithcurry.com. August 24, 2014.

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• Learning is not virtue but the means to bring us an acquaintance with it. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Let these be your motives to action through life, the relief of the distressed, the detection of frauds, the defeat of oppression, and diffusion of happiness.

  Nathanael Greene

  Integrity, Mean, Relief

  Nathanael Greene, Richard K. Showman, Rhode Island Historical Society (2005). “The papers of General Nathanael Greene”

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• To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.

  Jim Ryun

  Energy, Use, Shipping

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